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Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Do-It-Together Screenprinting
This 192-page book collects what appears to be three issues of Isaacson's zine of the same name, plus some bonus material. Actually, the first two issues carried the same name, the third one was changed to Do It Together Screenprinting, but we'll get to that later.
The first issue provides a wealth of information about low budget screen printing at home in your bedroom, living room, or...
Fire on the Mountain
I thought of sf writer Terry Bisson's work as being delightfully absurdist, always moving but never solemn, but then I read Fire on the Mountain, his acclaimed 1988 short novel, reprinted in 2009 by PM Press in a handsome pocket edition with an introduction written by the revolutionary Mumia Abu Jamal from his cell on death row. Now I know that Bisson is perfectly capable of being as solemn...
Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
Ostensibly about the recent political strife in the Mexican state, Diario de Oaxaca will likely be far better known for its gorgeous visuals and packaging as a diary, complete with ribbon bookmark. The book, with bilingual versions of the story under the same cover, tells the story of artist Peter Kuper’s life in the community there. However, this book is much more than that.
The 200...
Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
I was a vegan for almost 20 years.
I know the reasons that compelled me to embrace an extreme diet, and they are honorable — even noble. Reasons such as justice, compassion and a desperate, all-encompassing longing to set the world right. To save the planet — the last trees bearing witness to ages and the scraps of wilderness still nurturing fading species, silent in their fur and...
Introduction to Civil War
Semiotext(e) have recently published the text "Introduction to Civil War" by the pseudonymous authorial collective Tiqqun. The text is number 4 of the intervention series which has set for its mission the publication of some of the most crucial, critical and concise works in political philosophy and political economy of the past few years, including Christian Marazzi’s "The Violence of...